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The Production of a Sustainability Reporting Norm in Spanish State‐Owned Enterprises

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT State‐owned enterprises (SOEs) are hybrid organizations that pursue social and economic goals and are expected to engage in sustainability reporting. Previous literature has shown limited attention to examining the process by which a norm in sustainability reporting has emerged among SOEs.
Javier Andrades, Domingo Martinez‐Martinez, Manuel Larran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Tejo para o Amazonas: as chalupas de guerra de Manuel Vicente Nunes (1711-C.1775) [PDF]

Navigator, 2018
Among the hundreds of illustrations produced during the famous “Philosophical Journey” of the naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, by the captaincies of Grão-Pará, Rio Negro, Mato Grosso and Cuiabá, between 1783 and 1792, are some drawings of several
Nuno Saldanha
doaj  

Efforts to Prevent the Neglect of Traditional Indigenous Medicine: Policy Insights From Bolivia

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional Indigenous medicine has existed for centuries, but only recently has it obtained international recognition. Some countries have been working on the integration of traditional Indigenous healing practices in their national health systems.
Carlos Rosas‐Jiménez, Roberto Tola, Melina Flores, Sonia Cruz, Gonzalo Huanca, Cynthia Lokker, Bonny Ibhawoh, Lisa Schwartz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leitura e escrita no governo de homens e coisas. Província de São Paulo - Século XIX

Cadernos de História da Educação, 2019
O artigo apresenta considerações preliminares de investigação sobre os usos da leitura e da escrita pelo Estado a partir de estudo que mapeou o desenvolvimento de práticas educativas disseminadas na Província de São Paulo entre 1836-1880.
Celia Maria Benedicto Giglio
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria, Luciane Vilela Resende, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traçados históricos da prática do Gateball no Brasil: o caso de Ivoti/RS (1980-2010)

Caminhos da História, 2020
O presente estudo objetivou investigar como transcorreu a prática do Gateball na colônia japonesa de Ivoti, no Rio Grande do Sul, entre as décadas de 1980 e 2010. Para tanto, a narrativa historiográfica foi construída apoiando-se nos pressupostos teórico-
Josiana Ayala Ledur, Tuany Defaveri Begossi   +1 more
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source